The larger of the two seizures occurred at World Trade Bridge when CBP officers processed a 1997 International tractor hauling a 1997 Trailmobile trailer driven by a 36-year-old Mexican national from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico carrying a commercial shipment of auto parts. CBP officers referred the manifested shipment of 20 cartons of auto parts for an X-ray scan that resulted in an anomaly detected within the trailer. A closer inspection of the trailer led CBP officers to the discovery of 362 bundles of marijuana co-mingled with the shipment. The bulk load of marijuana weighed a total of 10,661 pounds and is valued at $10.6 million.

borderfirereport.net

Kalifornien machte mit einer Volksabstimmung 1996 den Weg für die Legalisierung von Medical Marihuana frei; jetzt hat die Initiative “Tax Cannabis” die nötigen Unterschriften beisammen, um den legalen Konsum für alle über 21 auf die nächste “Ballot” zu hieven – und diese Wahl könnte einmal mehr bahnbrechend werden. Denn der “Medical Marihuana”-Initiative sind mittlerweile 13 US-Bundesstaaten gefolgt. Bei einer Umfrage im vergangenen Jahr zeichnete sich eine Mehrheit von 56 % für eine solche Gesetzesänderung.

taz.de

MPP's Sarah Lovering appears on KTTV Fox in LA to discuss the reasons to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. Today a ballot initiative, TaxCannabis 2010, was approved that will give California voters the chance to allow adult possession and cultivation of marijuana for recreational purposes. 03/24/2010

Sarah Lovering

I'll bet that some social economists out there hope voters will approve the initiative to legalize marijuana in November, if only to see how the marketplace reacts. Proponents are talking about added tax revenue of $1.4 billion a year, which no doubt would trim the state's deficit – some day – and perhaps create tens of thousands of new California jobs, some day. Those numbers are just guesses – the truth is no one has the first clue how this might shake out.

scpr.org

That's the question California voters will face in the fall now that the ballot measure has qualified for the November election.

The state's political candidates got to face it Saturday. And their answers — more or less — were no, no, no and no.

When asked whether any of them had ever smoked marijuana, the answers were, again: No — except for the occasional "dunno."

mercurynews.com

"I knew Cary Grant very well and he loved ... what did they call it? Acid! LSD. He said he liked to take the trip." - Debbie Reynolds

"I learned many things in the quiet of that room ... I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite ... You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream ... I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship." - Cary Grant

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